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Review of point-and-click adventure The King's Challenge, available DRM free and on Steam

By flesk, 28 Jan 2016

Order of the Thorne: The King's Challenge is the latest game from Quest for Infamy developer Infamous Quests, and is the first game of a planned anthology series, now available on GOG, Itch.io, Humble Store and Steam.

SNOW, a CryEngine powered open-world winter sports game now on Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jan 2016

SNOW is incredibly interesting, mainly as it's our first proper winter sports type game to have on Linux & SteamOS, it's a bit buggy though. It's free, so no big loss right now if it's a bit iffy.

Ars slams SteamOS over issues with a single machine and a 4K monitor

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jan 2016

Ars Technica are usually quite interesting, but this latest SteamOS post bugged me a bit. The author tried out a Zotac's SN970 and had an issue with it.

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Company of Heroes 2 updated and performs better, The Western Front Armies expansion released

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jan 2016

Feral Interactive certainly don’t stop, Company of Heroes 2 has an impressive patch alongside The Western Front Armies expansion release on Linux. This patch also enables Linux to Mac online play.

Looks like Vendetta - Curse of Raven's Cry was removed from Steam, oh my

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jan 2016

Vendetta - Curse of Raven's Cry, the re-release of poorly received Raven's Cry has been removed from Steam, and the situation gets weird.

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GOG officially offering Early Access games, three have Linux versions right now

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jan 2016

GOG have joined in on the Early Access hype and have opened up their store to allow a few select titles in.

Arcen Games, developer of AI War & The Last Federation laying off staff

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jan 2016

Sad news today, Arcen Games who support Linux rather nicely with their games is laying off almost all staff members.

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Garry Newman of Rust and Garry's Mod regrets supporting Linux

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jan 2016

Garry Newman's latest lovely remark is that if he could do it again, he would never support Linux. It joins the list of lovely quotes from him about the platform.

Editorial

Albion Online MMO content update Brutus is now live, much better overall

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jan 2016

Albion Online is going to be something big when it's fully released, I'm sure of it. This update shows me how much they are listening to the community (within reason) too.

Homefront: The Revolution gamespot video looks good, but it will feature microtransactions

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jan 2016

Homefront: The Revolution is a title I am going to love I'm sure, and the more I see of it the happier I am with how the gameplay looks.

Master of Orion officially confirmed for Linux & SteamOS by Wargaming

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jan 2016

It's nice to have some good news. I told you all recently that it looked like Master of Orion was coming to SteamOS & Linux, and now it has been confirmed by Wargaming themselves.

Torment: Tides of Numenera launches in Early Access without Linux support, coming much later

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jan 2016

I was really hoping to give Torment: Tides of Numenera a go, but it seems I won't be able to since they have launched without Linux support right now. They aren't sure if it will get a Linux version during Early Access or after the final release.

Rocket League not due on SteamOS & Linux for another 6 to 8 weeks

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jan 2016

Well, I'm glad I didn't buy it on a promise. Rocket League developers have confirmed it's going to be another 6 to 8 weeks before the SteamOS & Linux version is ready.

Talos Principle & Serious Sam 3 getting Vulkan updates, Serious Sam 4 will be on a much improved engine

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2016

Both The Talos Principle and Serious Sam 3 should be getting updates with the Vulkan API, and Serious Sam 4 will also use it.

Mighty No. 9 delayed again due to networking problems

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2016

A shame when games get delayed, especially games like Mighty No. 9 that a lot of people are hoping turns out good. I would rather they delayed it, and delayed it some more until it's a polished experience.

Death by Game Show is a really weird strategy game now on Linux, some thoughts

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2016

I love strategy games, so I just had to give the totally weird looking Death by Game Show a go. My PR people sent over a key so I could check it out.

Feral Interactive will livestream some XCOM 2 before release this Thursday

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2016

Feral Interactive will be teasing the Linux port of XCOM 2 this Thursday at 6PM GMT, so we can see how it's doing.

Escape from Tarkov, the new Russian Survival MMO FPS looks like it's heading to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jan 2016

Escape from Tarkov is an interesting looking Russian-made action MMO that is apparently going to come to Linux too.

Atari Vault, a 100 classic game collection heading to SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jan 2016

This is lovely news, Atari Vault a new official collection of 100 classic games is heading to SteamOS & Linux

Vagante, a nifty-looking platformer with permadeath, available on Linux

By BTRE, 24 Jan 2016

Fans of challenging platformers with the trendy roguelite appellation might be interested to know that there's something new that they can sink their teeth into. Vagante promises countless hours of procedurally generated fun alone or with friends.